Don Moynihan: What we are seeing are the tactics used by people like James O' Keefe and Chris Rufo used on a mass scale - find someone saying something critical of Republicans, accuse them of bias, and try to get them fired. The key difference is that with Schedule F they really would be able to get them fired.

The future is terror. Funded by Heritage Foundation, the same group creating Project 2025, a GOP activist is snooping into the background of federal employees, creating a Trump enemies list. With Schedule F, they will fire those officials. apnews.com/article/trum...

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plansapnews.com Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homel...

We already knew that the Trump team had an enemies list of career officials they planned to fire based on their first term experiences. This is more wide-ranging. Last week I told a friend in the federal govt to delete his social media and start a Truth Social account. Only half-joking.

You can watch John Oliver's explanation of Schedule F here. Two points: 1) Engage in ideological purges is a central strategy to the GOP's governing doctrine now. 2) There is not equivalent energy in fighting back from the center or the left. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-public...

The Public Opposes Trump's Plans to Politicize Public Servicesdonmoynihan.substack.com And John Oliver provides a Project 2025 explainer for you to share

What we are seeing are the tactics used by people like James O' Keefe and Chris Rufo used on a mass scale - find someone saying something critical of Republicans, accuse them of bias, and try to get them fired. The key difference is that with Schedule F they really would be able to get them fired.

It is amazing that we've been so desensitized that this flies too far under the radar when folks ought to have their hair in flames. Some citizens have just turned themselves off for the benefit of their own sanity, but the cost will be that and more.

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